Fourteen players aged between 10 and 12 take the field Thursday in Pennsylvania, the fourth team from Maine to ever qualify for the Little League Baseball World Series.
Editorials
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Our View: Winslow residents deserve answers on ‘secret meetings’
When elected officials bend the rules, it’s easy for the public to lose faith.
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Our View: Federal funding reminds us of Maine public libraries’ potential
A shot in the arm for libraries across the state rightly focuses on the expanded role that they’re playing in our communities.
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View from Away: Rural hospital closures part of a national crisis
Fully a third of Missouri’s rural hospitals are in danger of closing in the next few years, leaving large swaths of the state without access to emergency services, obstetrics or even the most basic health care. It’s part of a national trend that qualifies as a looming crisis — one that might be addressed with […]
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Our View: Where is the public on abortion access? The writing is on the wall
The groundswell of support for abortion rights nationwide is forcing reassessment and soul-searching by those in pursuit of restrictions and bans. At least, it should be.
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Our View: Bus searches by border agents violate rights of Mainers
Old Town-based Cyr Bus Lines needs to join Greyhound and Concord Coach in taking a stand against questioning without warrants.
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Editorial: Should we name heat waves? It’s worth a try to save lives
Not a lot of people know about one of California’s worst disasters in the last few decades, one that overwhelmed hospitals, sent bodies piling up in coroner’s offices and was deadlier than the 1994 Northridge earthquake or the 2018 Camp fire. That’s what happened when a severe heat wave smothered California in July 2006, killing […]
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Our View: Next Farm Bill should bolster local food systems
At a hearing last week in Freeport, Maine farmers said they need support dealing with a number of crises.
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Our View: Hate groups tear at the seams of our country
White supremacists, and the politicians that have pulled them into the mainstream, are a growing threat.
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View from Away: Legacy admissions at colleges are more complicated than they appear. They won’t fully disappear
After the U.S. Supreme Court found (to no one’s surprise) that colleges and universities could not use a race-based approach in their admissions process, the long-standing attack on legacy admissions at highly selective institutions of higher education ramped up. Legacy admissions are what happens when a prospective student’s forebears such as parents or grandparents went […]